On 2 September, Dr M.R. Rajagopal received the annual award of International Association for Study of Pain (IASP) for Excellence in Pain Management for Developing [...]
We are happy to announce that the August issue of SAHAYATRA, our monthly Malayalam newsletter, is now available for download here…
Australia’s Brisbane Times speaks to Monash Medical Centre and Dandenong Hospital oncologist Ranjana Srivastava about her new book, Tell Me the Truth: Conversations with my Patients about [...]
Here is a new development from USA reported by the New York Times, “Frank Talk About Care at Life’s End“: Last week, over the objections [...]
Dr Michael Minton comments on an article in The New Yorker by Dr Atul Gawande: “This is a very insightful article by an American surgeon [...]
SPOTLIGHT… It is wonderful to get bouquets; but brickbats help us to improve. We got such an opportunity recently during a support group meeting for [...]
A study in The New England Journal of Medicine reported that among 151 patients with newly diagnosed metastatic lung cancer, those who received palliative care [...]
India has the 4th largest GDP in the world, but, in terms of providing palliative care, it ranks even lower than Uganda – an economy [...]
An article written by Mr T.V. Jayan in Calcutta’s daily newspaper, The Telegraph, refers to the same white paper and deals with the India’s need for palliative [...]
Onam is the annual harvest festival of Kerala, one that symbolises plenty, truth and honesty. The celebrations have started and will reach its peak on [...]
